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Jan 2 • 07:38 UTC • 🇭🇷 Croatia • Index.hr

Torture as a Form of Interrogation is Only Abolished by Her Decree, Until Then It Was Legal

On this day in 1776, Empress Maria Theresa of the Habsburg Monarchy enacted one of her most famous laws, abolishing torture as a method of interrogating suspects.

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